i understand ur frustration, it is BS when that happens. 60k in rake a year though, go ahead and quit so my EV goes up a bit for the promotions

damn i just realized i really wanna get top 3 atleast in last man standing promo so gotta stick with merge for a bit longer

New sn has been running well in the $3-6 cash games.
http://www.pokertableratings.com/mer...rch/bigdonk409

6k hands, tin foil hat is still in the closet

Just wanted to say great job keeping the majority of the normal tournaments running Merge. It's been awesome having a real schedule to play again. Excited for Sunday.

Please, please, please add some of these to the normal schedule!!

Same company. Though the option was only given to xfer to Carbon, SB, or PO. The few people I helped move to Aced, were manually done... so while possible, it's very likely that 99% of time, Carbon is/was the correct answer.



Sample size
Variance
Smashing Keyboards is -EV



+1

I'd like to see the addition of the more popular events to the normal schedule as well (albeit with reduced guarantees)...


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Kahn

There's a very easy "unintended" way to check both of these at once. Open the lobby of any tournament that is registering by double clicking it in the list, it will then show your account balance and point balance side by side in the center left area of the lobby.

Note that sometimes your point balance shows up as zero and you just have to reopen the lobby.

I will never play on a Merge site again

I had nothing but major problems getting my money off Carbon since August 2013.
I finally got some money today but they shorted me big time. They did not properly convert my US account money into Canadian funds so I lost over $120.00 which makes no sense. Dealing with them on Chat and emails is beyond illogical. Bottom line they ripped me off.
someone needs to close them down.


3-8 weeks is not acceptable time frame in this day and age. But this was ongoing for over 6 months.
I will stick to PokerStars and PartyPoker

lol at playing on merge from ROW.

For anyone interested, The Lipo Fund commented on playing Merge in his PG&C thread. He was 4th on the PokerStars yearly MTT leader board for 2013.

forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=42148672&postcount=764

Anyone else notice the Last Man Standing promo hit 97 and in the money after midnight, but then back up to 107 today? Guess it doesn't matter even though terms say you can't join after the 100 spot has been claimed, cause also says they can alter and do as they please.

Just a point of reference I guess incase it keeps happening, but could just be the totals weren't fully calculated accurately.

It's always been that way, presumably due to how/when their update scripts run. Just go by the number in the later update each day.

Are there any problems with the withdrawal on Carbon????????

Thanks for sharing!

ahh, my apologies.

Confirmed, it's been like this since the inception of LMS, including the first two... which I won. /brag

** All stats are typically accurate by ~10:30a PST +/- an hour

The cashier thread has many examples of cashouts and discussions of both good and bad player experiences. (FYI, every site ever sometimes has problems concerning withdrawals).


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Kahn

Is there a problem if you live in Missouri? I play from Missouri and have had an account for a few years. A friend of mine tried to open an account from Missouri recently and wasnt able to.

he states that they are doing something similar to ftp before it came crashing down, like ftp knew it was gonna come crashing down. FTP would have been A OK had the DOJ not came in and shut **** down, no??

FTP would have crashed in a blaze of glory had the DOJ not stepped in. They were paying their poker pros/buddies WAY too much money and never scaled back. It wasn't going to magically fix itself.

Did Merge disable the doomswitch? Or is there some sort of threshold I could have hit? Could they have disabled the doomswitch algorithm to save resources in preparation for shutting down?

Missouri is a bad state. There is a stick thread in this forum that will give you more details on where Missouri players can play. Evidently your old account is grandfathered in.

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did not know the list was that big FML, I guess things could be worse for me. Indiana is the ****, I'm proud to be a Hoosier; smell manure and eat corn on the cob.

They stopped taking accts from MO about 6 months after BF, accounts opened prior to that were the lucky ones. Confirmed Missouri is a bad state

I don't necessarily agree with all of his comments. Just found his view on the late-reg/re-entry issue interesting. (Not even sure what he meant by multi-entry.)

Regarding FTP, who knows. My impression is that they were already off the tracks and headed for disaster before Black Friday. I think there is a similarity in the mismanagement (hard to believe some of the decisions that were made at old FTP; ditto for Merge). FTP's mismanagement involved player funds directly, but I've never had the impression that any of the Merge skins are running a ponzi. Not that I would know.

Relax! Every time I've done a max withdrawal wire I have been shorted around $250 give or take. All I has to do was send a screen shot of the transaction from my online bank statement and they credited my poker account the difference. They even credit the $16.00 wire fee from my bank without me even asking for it when they noticed it on there. This has happened every time.

Also keep in mind that your "in this day and age comment" really doesn't pertain to this type of transaction. Technically the banking end of it is still illegal in the USA. Be happy you can still play, you can still profit, and you can still get your money in due time.

I'm not trying to be combative but let's not try to fool anyone or complain like this is a legal and regulated situation because it's not. You can expect better but you are not entitled to a speedy process.